A Galaxy of Fantastic Fiction from Bengal

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Even before there was ‘science fiction’, Bengalis were already using imagined futures as weapons of revolt. A student of Hindu College dreamt of overthrowing the British Raj in 1945. A republic was founded on the ashes of empire. A scientist tamed a cyclone with a bottle of hair oil.

Nationalism as alternative history. Anti-colonial satire in comical machines. Feminist utopias that declared war on patriarchy itself. While the West’s future meant rockets and aliens, Bengal’s future meant liberation—freedom from empire, from capital, from every form of normalised oppression.
Across 150 years, gathered here in translation for the first time, these stories present that future.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Dec/2026

ISBN: 9789377307134 (Paperback)

Length : 392 Pages

MRP : ₹599.00

A Galaxy of Fantastic Fiction from Bengal

Dip Ghosh

Santu Bag

Arunava Sinha

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Dip Ghosh

Dip Ghosh is a science fiction editor, translator, researcher, and author, and one of the founders of Kalpabiswa, a pioneering Bengali science fiction and fantasy magazine. He is the editor of Kalpabiswa Magazine and Kalpabiswa Publications, and has edited several influential Bengali speculative fiction anthologies.

A machine learning researcher by profession, Ghosh has written and translated extensively on science fiction and kalpavigyan, with his work appearing in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies across India. He is the creator of KalpaDB, an initiative dedicated to documenting and preserving the history of Indian speculative fiction. He represented India at Chengdu Worldcon and is the President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Society of India. He is particularly committed to nurturing new voices and bringing the rich heritage of Indian speculative fiction to a wider readership.

Santu Bag

Santu Bag is an Indian Bengali editor, author, researcher, and book designer specializing in speculative fiction. He currently works for a multinational company in Bengaluru.
A founding editor of Kalpabiswa, one of India’s pioneering Bengali science fiction and fantasy webzines, he also serves as the Chief Editor of Kalpabiswa Publications. Through his editorial, research, and publishing work, he has contributed significantly to bringing world-class science fiction and fantasy to Bengali readers, while helping preserve and expand the rich tradition of Bengali speculative literature.
His notable editorial projects include Kalpabigyan Prabandha Sangraha, H. G. Wells Kalpagalpa Samagra, Edgar Allan Poe Rachana Samagra, Vampire, Voyal Roser Samrat H. P. Lovecraft, and Manoranjan Bhattacharya Rachana Samagra. He has also designed numerous books for Kalpabiswa Publications.
Alongside his professional career, Santu remains actively involved in the development, documentation, and preservation of Bengali science fiction and fantasy, with a particular interest in bringing both classic and international speculative literature to contemporary Bengali readers.

Arunava Sinha

Arunava Sinha (Translator)
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over eighty of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA. He teaches creative writing at Ashoka University, where he is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation, and is the Books Editor at Scroll.in.

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